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Maddie: Did the BBC bend the truth?

On the night Madeleine McCann disappeared, an Irish tourist saw a man with a child matching her description near the McCann apartment. His testimony could prove vital to the world’s most famous missing person case, especially since the man he saw that night has never come forward

On a cold May night in 2007, Martin Smith and his family were walking home after an evening out in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz. A retired businessman from Drogheda, Co Louth, he co-owned an apartment there and was a regular visitor to the Algarve town.

The crowds of summer had yet to arrive and the normally bustling streets of the old quarter lay quiet. It was approaching 10pm when some members of the family of nine were suddenly struck by the sight of a man walking quickly towards them holding a small child uncomfortably in his arms.

As he passed close by them on the narrow street, the child appeared to be in a deep sleep, her head placed over his shoulder and arms suspended down her body.

She was blonde, aged around four and wearing pyjamas. Despite the chill in the air, her feet were bare. Martin and his daughter Aoife noted that her skin was very white. The man carrying the girl was middle-aged and more formally dressed than the average tourist, in beige trousers and a dark blazer-like top.

A member of Martin’s family made a comment towards him that the child was sleeping but he did not respond or make eye contact, keeping his head down as he hurriedly headed in the direction of the coast.

At the time, Martin did not realise the sighting had the potential to change the course of the world’s most high-profile missing-person case.

The following morning, he got a text from his daughter in Ireland to tell him that a three-year old girl had gone missing in the resort. The approximate time frame and location he had witnessed the man and child appeared to match.

By now, the mystery of what happened to Madeleine McCann was beginning to grip the world. Martin brought his mind back to the evening before and wondered if the child he saw could have been her. The girl certainly matched Madeleine’s description and the sighting had taken place at Rua da Escola Primaria, just 500 yards from the McCanns’ apartment. In time, Martin would become convinced he was correct.

Over a decade has passed since Madeleine McCann went missing on May 3, 2007 yet the case of the British three-year-old remains mired in more questions than answers. The mainstream media, who have by and large backed Gerry and Kate McCann’s version of events with the support of several A-list celebrities and politicians, appear to have lost interest in a story they once could not get enough of.

The very opposite is true on social media. The internet swirls with allegations and theories that the McCann story is littered with holes and does not stack up. Countless videos have been posted on YouTube by armchair detectives challenging the parents’ seemingly at times bizarre behaviour, in particular their reactions in certain interviews when the finger of blame shifts towards them.

Some are compelling to watch and have highlighted what appear to be discrepancies and confusion in certain accounts given by the McCanns and some of their friends about what happened in the period before and after Madeleine disappeared.

The McCanns in Lisbon in 2014

“It was like watching an action replay”

Gerry McCann, a consultant cardiologist from Scotland, and his Liverpool wife Kate, a GP and anaesthetist, said they had put their daughter and two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie to bed at around 7pm, had drinks together for almost an hour and then left the children alone to go to a tapas bar 50 yards from their apartment. There they met seven friends with whom they were on holiday. They told police that they and their friends checked on the children every half hour.

Gerry said he went to the apartment at 9.05pm and all the children were sleeping soundly. He said Madeleine was lying on her left-hand side in exactly the same position she was in when they had left her.

At 9.25pm, his friend, Dr Matthew Oldfield told police he went to check on the McCann children. He said afterwards he could not be certain that he saw Madeleine on that check.

Kate McCann said she went back to the apartment at around 10pm, entering through the patio doors that they had left unlocked. She said she noticed that the door of the children’s bedroom was “completely open” and that the window was also open and the shutters raised. She said she scoured the apartment, then left the twins asleep in their beds before running back to her friends in the tapas bar and claiming Madeleine had been taken. At 10.41pm, her disappearance from Apartment 5A of the Ocean Club resort was reported to police by hotel staff.

Overnight the story made headlines around the world. Several days after Madeleine disappeared, the Smith family flew back home, but the sighting remained at the back of Martin’s mind. He discussed it with his wife Mary, son Peter and daughter Aoife who were with him that night.

When they tallied the time and location, and the fact that the man they had seen had come from the direction of the Ocean Club complex where the McCanns were staying, they were convinced that it could have been Madeleine they had seen.

They decided to inform investigating police, and at the end of May 2007, Martin, Aoife and Peter flew back out to Portugal to make statements. They gave similar accounts of the man they had witnessed: average build, short brown hair, beige trousers; and the child: blonde, around four, and wearing pyjamas.

As the summer passed, the mystery of what happened to Madeleine McCann continued to perplex the world but life returned to normal for the Smiths. Then one Sunday evening in September, it came back to haunt Martin again. He was sitting at home watching TV when a report came on the BBC ‘News at Ten’ about the McCanns’ return to Britain. As he watched Gerry coming down the steps of the plane, carrying his two-year-old son in his arms, Martin was gripped by what he had just seen and described the experience as watching “an action replay” in his mind.

He was instantly brought back to the night of May 3 in Praia da Luz. Something about the way Gerry was holding the child in his arms and the way he put his head down seemed shockingly similar to the man he had seen in Portugal the night Madeleine went missing. He said it hit him like a “bolt from the blue”. He watched the clip again on different news channels reinforcing his belief that he was not mistaken.

During this period, Martin had difficulty sleeping and felt sick with anxiety. He contacted the Garda and informed them of what had happened.

He told them he was 60-80% sure the man he saw carrying the child that night was Gerry McCann. His wife Mary felt the same way.

Irish officers found him credible. A local garda who interviewed him on behalf of the Portuguese authorities described him as a genuine, decent man who did not want to court the press or seek publicity.

But while Martin’s evidence seemed compelling, independent and without motivation, much to his frustration, it was not given the attention it seemed to deserve.

Almost a year after he made his initial statement to police, he was approached by private detectives working for the McCanns and asked to make e-fits (electronic facial identification images), of the man he had seen the night Madeleine disappeared.

The McCanns say they gave these pictures to the police at the time but chose not to publicise them. Instead they remained focused on another sighting by their friend Jane Tanner, one of the so-called Tapas Seven group of friends who had been on holiday with the couple and who dined with them the evening Madeleine disappeared.

She claimed to have seen a man carrying a child away from their apartment complex at around 9.20pm, but in the opposite direction to the man allegedly seen by the Smiths.

The picture of Gerry McCann that caused Martin Smith to have a flashback which has haunted him for years

However, more than six years later, in 2013, the Metropolitan police announced that a British tourist had come forward to say he could have been the man she had seen as he carried his daughter home from the Ocean Club late night creche.

The Tanner sighting was about to be dismissed. The Met would switch their attention to the man seen by the Smiths. The e-fit images were finally released and the then chief investigating officer Andy Redwood said the timeline leading up to Madeleine’s disappearance was being rewritten, especially the 90 minutes between 8.30pm, when the McCanns left their children to go to the restaurant and 10pm, when they discovered their daughter missing.

A reward of £20,000 was offered to anyone who could assist with the investigation. But then the story of the Smith sighting took another bizarre twist as allegations emerged in the media that the family had retracted their statements. The public were being told that this potentially critical development was just another red herring.

The BBC even went as far as to make this claim. In a ‘Panorama’ programme broadcast in May 2017 to mark the tenth anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance, presenter Richard Bilton told viewers that the Smiths had changed their mind about seeing Gerry McCann and now believed they had seen someone else.

In recent weeks, I have spoken to Martin Smith at his home in Drogheda. He told me he continues to stand by everything he said to police in 2007. At no point did he withdraw his statement or change his mind about the sighting.

An e-fit image of the ‘Smith man’ who has never come forward

He is frustrated by media claims that he now says he was mistaken; and remains “60-80 per cent” convinced that the man he saw that night was Gerry McCann.

After the BBC programme was broadcast, Martin contacted ‘Panorama’ and informed them of their inaccuracy. But the broadcaster failed to correct the record despite its public service remit.

Last month, I asked the BBC why they had wrongly suggested the Smith sighting had been withdrawn and if they were willing to correct their error at this late stage.

I received a reply acknowledging that they had indeed broadcast an inaccuracy. They agreed to update the ‘Panorama’ programme on their iPlayer to reflect the correction. They say the mistake was made in good faith but they have failed to explain how they came to make such a fundamental error and why they did not check if their story about the Smiths was correct before they aired the programme.

Former Scotland Yard murder detective Colin Sutton is one of a number of experienced officers who believe the Smith sighting is one of the most important pieces of evidence available to the investigation.

According to media reports, Sutton had been tipped to head up the new probe by British police in 2010. He claims he received a call shortly after these reports from a high-ranking friend in the Met who warned him not to take on the job as he would not be happy being told what he could and could not look at.

Several aspects of the new investigation perplex him including the apparent decision by Operation Grange not to question Gerry and Kate McCann or their friends again.

“Looking at the background to the whole case again, inconvenient suggestions like the Smith sightings, have been dismissed on a number of occasions”, he says:

“When someone comes forward like that, it must be taken very seriously. It wasn’t just a throwaway phone call. It was something quite specific. The fact that Mr Smith’s memory was triggered by seeing Gerry Mc Cann carrying the child down the steps of the plane is quite relevant because I think that is how the mind works. It is a trigger I would take quite seriously.”

“I can see no reason why Martin Smith would make up these claims. He has nothing to gain from doing so”.

Operation Grange

To date, Operation Grange, which now consists of four detectives from a peak of 31, has cost the British public more than £11m making it one of the most expensive police investigations in history. It was launched in 2011 after the Portuguese closed their enquiry in 2008. Funds are expected to run out at the end of March. Grange has been heavily criticised for refusing to reinterview Gerry and Kate McCann and the so-called Tapas Seven. The Met said local police had already done this and there was no need to repeat the process, but the Portuguese investigation was littered with failings and best practice in cases like this dictates it is always important to eliminate those closest to the child first.

In Britain, as matters currently stand, if the authorities are any closer to finding the chief suspect in the world’s most famous missing child case, they are certainly not saying.

As for the man the Smiths saw that night, he has yet to come forward to eliminate himself from the enquiry and remains unidentified.

100 reasons why Madeleine McCann was not abducted

100 reasons why Madeleine McCann was not abducted

“Taken alone, each piece of evidence might be argued, but together, enough pebbles become a block of evidentiary granite.”

PHYSICAL / APARTMENT / ENTRY

1. All five markers in a sample found under the tiles, behind the sofa (exactly where Eddie, the EVRD [Cadaver] dog and Keela, the CSI [Human Blood] dog, both indicated), are 100% compatible with Madeleine’s DNA profile

2. Fifteen of the markers, in a sample found under the luggage liner of the McCann’s Scenic (hired 24 days later), are 100% compatible with Madeleine’s DNA profile

3. Shutters were not jemmied or forced, as claimed by the parents

4. No signs of forced entry anywhere in the apartment

5. No physical evidence of anyone having entered or left via the window, including:

The only perceived evidence of abduction, being the sighting by Jane Tanner at around 21.15 is riddled with inconsistencies and conflicting testimonies, being the fact that

24. None of the scent tracking Search & Rescue dogs followed that trail, and in fact followed another trail completely

25. Jeremy Wilkins (independent witness) failed to spot the ?abductor?, despite being only yards away, while chatting to Gerry

26. Jeremy Wilkins (independent witness) failed to see Jane Tanner walking by, despite being on the same narrow sidewalk at the same time

27. Gerry himself failed to spot the abductor, despite being only yards away, while chatting to Jeremy

28. Gerry contradicted Jeremy by stating that their chat was on the opposite side of the road from that as described, and drawn on a map, by Mr Wilkins

29. Gerry also contradicted Tanner, by stating that his chat with Jeremy was on the opposite side of the road from that mentioned by Jane

30. Jane failed to spot the open window and shutters and blowing curtains coming from Madeleine’s bedroom while walking to her apartment at 21.15

31. Jane failed to spot the open window and shutters and blowing curtains coming from Madeleine?s bedroom while walking from her apartment at 21.20

32. Jane never bumped into Jeremy Wilkins (who had walked back to his apartment after the chat with Gerry) while walking back from her apartment at 21.20

33. Russell O’Brien failed to spot the open window and shutters and blowing curtains coming from Madeleine’s bedroom while walking to his apartment at 21.30

34. Matthew Oldfield failed to spot the open window and shutters and blowing curtains coming from Madeleine’s bedroom while walking to his apartment, which was right next door, at 21.30

35. Matthew failed to spot the open window and shutters and blowing curtains while checking on Madeleine and the twins

36. Matthew failed to spot the open window and shutters and blowing curtains coming from Madeleine’s bedroom while walking from his apartment back to the Tapas at around 21.35

37. Jane failed to spot the open window and shutters and blowing curtains coming from Madeleine’s bedroom while walking to her apartment at 21.45

38. Russell failed to spot the open window and shutters and blowing curtains coming from Madeleine’s bedroom while walking back from his apartment at 21.50

39. Tanner’s description has changed several times

40. It makes no sense, especially if (as the McCann’s claim) that this was a well planned abduction, that the abductor walks across the very road used by the parents to check on their children

41… The abductor failed to hear either Tanner, Gerry or Wilkins, and continued on the path that would put him in the full vision of all three

42… If the abductor had lifted Madeleine out of the bed, then he would be carrying with her head to his right hand side, not on the left as in Tanner’s claimed sighting

SMITH SIGHTING

43. The Smith family (independent witnesses) sighting has, with the exception of one brief mention two years later, been completely ignored by the McCann’s and their private detectives from day one (no e-fit / press conference / media onslaught) despite the fact that?

44. There was huge publicity given to the Tanner sighting, including the pressure put on the Portuguese authorities to get the details out there

45. The Smith family descriptions have never changed

46. The sighting was only minutes before the ‘alarm’ was raised

47. The sighting was only 250 metres from the apartment

48. This sighting would have explained many of the inconsistencies of the Tanner sighting as mentioned above

49. There were several members of the family who witnessed this man carrying a child

50. The general area and timing of the sighting made by the family can be corroborated by a restaurant receipt for that evening

51. The general description of the man could fit Gerry McCann

52. The description of the child matches Madeleine

53. The type of trousers match those possessed by Gerry

54. Trousers match in terms of colour

55. Trousers even match in terms of the visible buttons as mentioned by one of the family

56. Martin and his wife later identified the carrier, through the distinctive carrying style, as being Gerry McCann

Given much of the above, the remarkable coincidence that?

57. The pressure put on the PJ to highlight the Tanner sighting came at exactly the same time as the Smith family were being brought back to Portugal to go over the sighting in more detail

58. The sighting was in a different part of town from the Tanner sighting

59. It was also heading in a completely different direction

60. The carrying style was completely different to that of the Tanner sighting

61. And yet the McCann’s deliberately altered the Smith sighting carrying style so as to match that of the Tanner sighting, during the only ever significant mention of the sighting, in a McCann made reconstruction aired only a few days after Amaral’s (in which he included the Smith sighting)

62. They also tried to morph the carrier into the same man as seen by Tanner, despite significant differences in descriptions

BEHAVIOURAL

There are many instances of strange behaviour from the McCann’s, not being consistent with parents of a child abducted by paedophiles, including (but not limited to)?

63. Kate complaining about the speed of a police vehicle while being take to look into a new lead at PJ HQ (sighting caught on CCTV)

64. Gerry laughing and joking and sucking lollipops while one of the most significant abduction leads came to a climax

65. Very little mention of the huge award available over the last three years

66. Despite raising millions through their fund, and spending thousands on media monitoring, they continue to charge for travel kits and for printing off posters designed to help find their daughter

69. Hiring cowboy private detectives with no expertise or experience in finding children

70. Gerry smirking when asked by a Sky News presenter how he feels when someone comes forward who is certain that they have seen Madeleine

71. When up to 14 possible sightings of Madeleine emerged in Malta, resulting in a huge police operation including Interpol, the McCann’s hot footed it to Germany for more TV plugs

72. When the most promising sighting of all was made in Belgium, a 110% certain sighting by a child therapist, considered so credible by authorities that they despatched a forensics team, the McCanns went looking in Huelva, Spain

73. Gerry’s initial claim, as overheard by another holidaymaker, within minutes of the alarm being raised, that Madeleine had been taken by paedophiles. How did he know that?

74. Gerry caught on Camera laughing his head off only a few days after his daughter had been abducted by paedophiles as claimed by the parents

75. Despite refuting the claims of the dogs / Scenic findings, the McCann’s continued to submit ridiculous reasoning for them, including Sea bass, sweat, dirty nappies, rubbish en-route to dump, rotten meat, and attending to 6 bodies before the holiday, amongst others

76. Kate refusing to answer 48 police questions

77. The McCann’s and their holiday friends all refusing to attend a police reconstruction

78. Despite the Madeleine’s disappearance looking like an inside job from the outset, the McCann’s and their friends were happy enough returning their children to the MW creche just hours later, despite not knowing if any of the staff were involved

79. When Kate raised the alarm, she ran back to the table, leaving the twins in the apartment while not knowing whether the abductor(s) were still onsite

80. Kate shouting They’ve taken her!?, not distinguishing between Madeleine and her sister Amelie

STATEMENT INCONSISTENCIES

90. When describing Madeleine sleeping that night, Kate said she was under the covers where as Gerry mentioned that his daughter slept without the covers, as was normal

91. Matthew Oldfield initially claimed that Kate and the children were at the tennis courts when he arrived there at 18.30 where as the rest of the Tapas 9 claim otherwise

92. David Payne’s 18.30 / 18.40 check on Kate (last person out with the parents to see Madeleine) : According to Kate the sliding door was closed, and that David didn’t actually enter the apartment, remaining at the door. But according to David, the door was open and he definitely entered the apartment.

93. Matt Oldfield chivvying up the Payne’s at 21.00 : Matt claims he passed them near the top of the road, but David claims to have passed him by the swimming pool, Fiona claims to have passed him outside 5A, and Dianne Webster initially claimed that Matthew wasn’t even there.

94. Prior to the PJ arriving at 12:40/12:50 Russell O’Brien has written the timeline for them all, including, Jane tanner sees stranger walking carrying child. He does this while Gerry McCann sits at the same table. However, according to Jane Tanner it’s three o’ clock in the morning when she informs Gerry McCann for the first time

100. This same friend calls the Metropolitan Police Crime Specialist Director (a number which is also used as the out of hours contact for the Met’s Child Abuse Investigation Team) 24 hours after the alarm

as I have said for many years, the only way that Kate & Gerry McCann can ever clear their name for direct responsibility for the disappearance of the daughter Madeleine, and her probable death, the daughter who was one of 3 babies who they recklessly abandoned to go out carousing with their chums, in a taverna over 150 yards away, will be to face prosecution and justice in a British Court.

I do not believe on the ervidence and facts available that either Kate or Gerry or any other party was responsible for the murder of Madeleine but I do believe that Kate & Gerry McCann were jointly and severally directly responsible for her disapearance and probable death, as a result of criminal and culpable reckless abandonment leading to that disapearance and probable death.

Why have they not been prosecuted or was it just because they were an affluent middle class couple rather than on benefitys living in rented accomodation – it does unfortunately seem that way as had they been less well off less well educated and less adroit at manipulating the media and other peoples emotions they would long hence have been charged!

There would seem to be a very clear divide in who is brought to justice and who is not and it does rather look as if it is purely on social/class grounds!

However I believe the farce will continue as I do not believe that they would be able to clear their names and reputations in a just court, after consideration of the facts and evidence already well aired in the public domain.

MORE MADDIE AGONY

Madeleine McCann’s parents Kate and Gerry ‘lose third libel battle to silence cop who claimed they faked her kidnap’

Portugal’s highest court dismissed Gerry and Kate’s bid to overturn a ruling that Goncalo Amaral did not libel them in tell-all book

By Danny Collins

22nd March 2017,11:38 am

Updated: 22nd March 2017,11:46 am

MADDIE McCann’s parents have lost a third and ‘final’ appeal against claims made in a book by the policeman who oversaw the hunt for their daughter, it is reported.

Portugal’s highest court dismissed Gerry and Kate’s bid to overturn a court’s ruling that Goncalo Amaral had not libelled them in a tell-all book.

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Gerry and Kate McCann are reported to have lost a third appeal over claims a Portuguese cop libelled them in a book about the investigation into their missing daughter Maddie

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Amaral published The Truth of the Lie in 2008 which led to a TV documentary

The Truth Of The Lie alleged the youngster had died and Kate and Gerry McCann covered it up.

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it is hard to find fault with the arguments put forward by the Portuguese Criminal investigator Moita Flores, who was once attached to the Policia Judiciaria and before him Goncalas Amaral both police investigators who worked on the case of the disapearance of Madeleine McCann officially.

It has always been my personal opinion that due to the reckless abandonment of their 3 very young children whilst Kate and Gerry McCann, both Doctors whose training is the very bedrock of the laws related to criminal negligence and child neglect and child abuse, were the most clearly guilty in this case – They had neglected their 3 very young children to irresponsibly persue their own pleasure, when all too clearly they could afford to pay one of the readily available registered baby sitters available at the resort.

That over £11 Million of tax payers’ money has been squandered on this case without justice either being done or seen to be done, is in my opinion an obscene waste of public funds.

Had there been a single shred of evidence that the child had been deliberately abducted, perhaps one could justify the expense – but why have the parents not been put before the Courts for their criminal negligence that led to Madeleine McCann’s disapearance – had they taken the most basec of interest in the well being of their children with a baby sitter, the child would never have gone missing.

Had there been even a Coroner’s Court enquiry there was every hope that new evidence would have been exposed and scrutinised, a criminal prosecution of the parents for their criminal negligence would have probed even deeper to expose the truth and neither course of action would have dragged on for 10 years and it is unlikely a fraction of the £11M would have been spent, which it has been to date with no greater knowledge of what went on in that flat than 10 years ago!

The death of Madeleine McCann would have been a tragedy and could have been dealt with in a normal and responsible manner by both the Police, the public and the parents with lessons being learned by all.

That 2 of the investigating officers consider it a probability that the child died in the appartment in a tragic accident and have had the courage to speak out accordingly tends to confirm my own long held belief

That our conclussions having studied 1,000s of items of evidence and reports only confirms to me tthe belief that Justice has neither been done nor seen to be done. At least a prosecution of the parents for their undeniable offence would at very least give them the opportunity both to have ALL of the evidence exposed and scrutinised and also a chance to clear their names.

I would of course dearly love to hear of the discovery of Madeleine Mccann, as with cases like DuGard and the like – but let us not forget all those cases had one thing in common, they were of older children and for sexual gratification. Had this been such a case it is a near certainty that it would have led to death and how was absolutely no evidence left at the appartment, nor is there any clarity of evidence of abduction – the most likely item having been the sighting of a man, not undesimilar to Gerry McCann, carrying a child of about the right size over his shoulder late on that night – a sighting that was unconfirmed and uncorroborated!

One is forced to ponder, with regret, as to whether this incident had occured on a council house estate involving some mythical Damian and Tracey and the loss of their daughter of a similar age, whilst they were in the pub nextdoor, whether they could have drummed up £11Million and avoided prosecution or has education and status skewed the blindfolded balance of the scales of justice!

‘I have no doubt.’

A Portuguese crime expert has weighed in on the mystery over Madeleine McCann, claiming to know for certain what happened to the little girl.

Criminal investigator Moita Flores, who was once attached to the Policia Judiciaria which began the search for the missing child, made his remarks as intriguing new leads in the case began to emerge.

“Maddie died in that apartment, I have no doubt,” he said in comments reported by The Sun.

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Moita Flores’ comments have been dismissed as ‘pure speculation’ by a spokesman for the McCanns

Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished in 2007 from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz as her parents dined with friends at a tapas bar nearby. The McCanns have spoken of their bitter regret about leaving her and two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie alone. The missing girl would now be a teenager, but the family has never given up the search and remain hopeful she is alive.

While Portuguese and British detectives are united in probing fresh tips that Madeleine was spirited away by traffickers, Flores dismissed this, stating: “It would have been impossible to get through the window with a child.”

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There is never a wrong time to do the right thing – or to help those less fortunate than oneself, even if there is personal risk.

many 1,000s of gullible donors paid in hard earned money to help fund a search for Madeleine McCann, yet it seems the McCanns have spent that money on much else and now it seems that includes their lost case to try and suppress the evidence and opinions put forward by the Lead Police Enquiry Officer covering the case, in Portugal.

I presume their actions against Tony Bennett, who gave his opinion and drafted a long list of questions for the McCanns to answer, was funded from this same source!

I believe that it is legitimate to question the morality of collecting money for one cause and then seeing it spent on seeking to impress and bully others with conflicting views into silence, is potentially fraud or the outright embezelling of the fund, but although I believe I am correct and clearly it is morally wrong, whether it is criminally wrong is a matter for the police!!

NEVER GIVING UP

Maddie McCann’s parents ‘plough £500,000 into investment fund’ as they try to keep hunt for missing daughter up ten years since she disappeared

A source said it made sense for the money raised for the Find Madeleine Fund to go as far as possible

By Brittany Vonow

11th March 2017,9:59 pm

Updated: 12th March 2017,2:04 am

KATE and Gerry McCann have poured almost half a million pounds into a string of investments as the search for their daughter Madeleine nears almost a decade.

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in that an estimated £13M has been spent on trying to find evidence of abduction and not one scrap has been found, nor has any evidence of outside interference been provided, it does most clearly narrow the odds and it makes it seem that much of the spending and self publicity of the McCanns would seem to have been something of a distraction from the real fact – which is that, in my opinion, Kate & Gerry McCann should be prosecuted for their gross negligence and reckless abandonment of their 3 babies, the oldest of which was Madeleine.

Had the parents acted responsibly and acquitted their duty as parents it seems almost an absolute certainty that Madeleine would have survived that night and still be alive today as she approaches her 14th. Birthday.

She tweeted: “In my opinion it’s all going to come crashing down for the McCanns…

“I must admit, if it were my child I’d be on my hands & knees digging up the earth with my bare hands! Nothing else would matter.”

A close pal of the McCanns said of the approaching anniversary: “It’s a very difficult and emotional time for them and they don’t need the extra anguish of having tweeters and minor celebrities posting negative and hurtful remarks about them.

“They are now filtering, with the aid of their official representative and friends, any cruel and offensive material which oversteps the mark to pass on to police to assess. Malicious communication is an offence.

“People seem to be saying whatever they want which is the eyes of the law could be deemed a criminal offence. There is a constant and growing activity by these ghouls and it’s a disgrace.

“It continues to anger and upset Madeleine’s family.”

TV detective claims Maddie McCann knew where parents were and went looking for them

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Madeleine McCann, three, went missing in 2007 from the family’s holiday apartment in Portugal

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Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann have never given up hope of finding her alive

Psychologist Dr John Synott said: “Most trolling behaviour has a lifespan of a couple of days. But the McCann case has been going on for nearly ten years and you cannot see the abuse ever ending.”

The couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell told The Sun Online: “Any threatening and malicious communication will immediately be forwarded to the police for them to investigate and to act upon where necessary.”

Mr Mitchell has also been bombarded with abuse himself for representing the family.

Former GP Kate, whose hope of finding her daughter alive never fades, has previously said: “We’ve had lots of abuse over the years. People wouldn’t get away with behaving like that in the street and yet they feel they can hide behind a computer at home. They’re cowards.”

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Much of the online abuse against the McCanns comes from women, research found

Kate revealed that while she and heart doctor husband Gerry, 48, try to ignore the negative comments posted on Twitter and chat forums, some are too malicious to forget.

The anguished mum said in an TV interview with Lorraine Kelly: “It’s the internet abuse that is so damaging and we both feel really strongly that more should be done about it.”

Gerry has in the past hit out at trolls targeting his family with threats of violence and kidnapping, and said he worries about his 12-year-old twins Sean and Amelie using the internet.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “There have been instances where people are threatening to kidnap our children. People are threatening violence against Kate and myself.

“Of course it’s not just us. It is many other people who happen to find themselves in rather tragic circumstances. I do think we need to make examples of people who are causing damage.”

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I appreciate that as a result of exposing the criminality, corruption or abuse of others and/or providing a venue to enable others to do likewise – many who feel threatened by my actions will seek to discredit me in any way they can and will invent or distort facts about me. I accept that is a risk, to which I expose myself, however I am well aware that my friends know the truth, others with integrity can check the facts by contacting me and the corrupt, dishonest and gullible who promote or believe the lies published about me must answer to their own shame in the long run! Frankly I care not a jot what such people’s opinion of me is as their willingness to lie about me or accept or promote the lies about me speaks volumes of them and very little about me and affects me not one jot.

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They have always vehemently denied any involvement.

They were ruled out as “arguidos” – formal suspects – in 2008 but the country’s top court said in newly released 76-page dossier that this does not “equate to proof of innocence”.

The previously reported Supreme Court ruling said there were “serious concerns” over the theory three-year-old Maddie had been snatched from her bedroom at the Ocean Club apartment in the Algarve’s Praia da Luz nearly 10 years ago.

The comments were made in the huge dossier after Amaral, who headed the hunt for the missing girl, was handed victory.

Amaral, 58, was booted off the original Maddie inquiry after criticising British police, and he later retired.

He insists everything written in his book was already contained in police and court case files which had been made public.

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Goncalo Amaral, who headed the initial investigation into Maddie’s disappearance, wrote The Truth Of The Lie in 2008The ex cop is now writing a second Maddie book after judges ruled his “right to freedom of expression” was worthy of greater protection than the McCann’s “right to honour.”

Ms Duarte, speaking before the couple’s original libel victory was overturned on appeal: “It has been proved in the civil file that Amaral earned around 380,000 Euros in one year from the book, which is made of up false stories based on the case. Kate and Gerry expect compensation for the dreadful damages this book has brought their family.”

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I AM IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies

I see no evidence to trust POLITICIANS at any level or of any persuasion

I do NOT believe in GODS singular or plural, Bronze Age or Modern

I value the NHS as a HEALTH SERVICE NOT a Lifestyle support

I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial or GBH rape.

I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial, terrorist, mass or for pleasure murder.

I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.

I do NOT trust or believe in armed police

I do NOT believe in prolonging human life beyond reasonable expectation of sentient participatory intellectual existence

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There is never a wrong time to do the right thing – or to help those less fortunate than oneself, even if there is personal risk.